Jimmy Wales

Our growth rate continues to be staggering.

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Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.

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The mainland Chinese tend to take a Chinese mainland point of view on controversial issues, and the Taiwanese take another the Taiwanese viewpoint.

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While I'm optimistic about the direction the world is headed, generally, I think there is a need for constant vigilance and pressure on repressive governments.

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If I had some information, the last thing I would ever do with it is send it to Wikileaks.

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People take issue with individual aspects of Wikipedia all the time. But it's kind of hard to hate the general idea of a free encyclopedia. It's like hating kittens.

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The core of Wikipedia is something people really believe in. That is too valuable for the world to screw it up.

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I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.

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Quotes by Jimmy Wales